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This giant sinkhole on a busy street in Japan was repaired in just 48 hours (vid)
Engineers and construction workers impressed the world with their efficiency In November of 2016, a 30-metre sinkhole on a busy street in the Japanese city of Fukuoka was repaired in just...
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Colombian under-construction bridge collapsed, probably due to high loads
The cable-stayed bridge, whose collapse killed 10 construction workers, was set to be opened in March as part of a major highway linked to the capital Bogota On January 15th, a partially c...
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The 6.4-magnitude quake in Taiwan and the more than 100 reported aftershocks that rattled the region
Experts disagree on whether Taiwan is facing an ‘earthquake swarm’ or not On February 6th, a magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit Taiwan’s east coast, killing at least 9 people and injuring 270 other...
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40 years after Kelly Barnes dam failure
On this day in 1977, a small embankment dam located above Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia failed, releasing a wall of water that killed 39 people. This dam failure along with several others in t...
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Storm Ophelia’s winds rip school roof off in Dublin (video)
On the afternoon of October 16th, the roof of Douglas Community School’s PE hall in Cork, Dublin City in Ireland was ripped off by the extreme winds of storm Ophelia. Being a hurricane as it crossed t...
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The powerful 7.1 magnitude quake in Mexico left more than 230 people dead and dozens of buildings collapsed
The US Geological Survey predicted up to 1,000 fatalities will come from the earthquake, and an economic impact of between US$1bn and $10bn. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central&...
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Mexico earthquake was the strongest in a century
Dozens of people have been reported dead A shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 8.1 and a depth of 69.7 km hit Mexico on Thursday, September 7th, late at night. It was the strongest earthquak...
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Structures that didn’t cope with Hurricane Harvey
It was the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun, making landfall in Texas. Harvey developed from a tropical wave to a Category 4 storm, coming ashore on August 25th and c...
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Earthquake on Italian holiday island leaves at least two people dead and 39 injured
A 4.3-magnitude earthquake hit the Italian holiday island of Ischia at 8:57 p.m. local time on Monday night. Up to now, two women have been reported dead, one of whom having been hit by falling masonr...
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Construction crane collapses while building a bridge (video)
In the evening of the 9th of May, a large crawler crane collapsed in Varese, Italy while lifting a large section of a new viaduct at the Arcisate Stabio railway yards. The piece of concrete bridge was...
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